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Dump   /dəmp/   Listen
noun
Dump  n.  A thick, ill-shapen piece; a clumsy leaden counter used by boys in playing chuck farthing. (Eng.)


Dump  n.  
1.
A dull, gloomy state of the mind; sadness; melancholy; low spirits or a mild depression; despondency; ill humor; now used only in the plural. "March slowly on in solemn dump." "Doleful dumps the mind oppress." "I was musing in the midst of my dumps." Note: The ludicrous associations now attached to this word did not originally belong to it. "Holland's translation of Livy represents the Romans as being in the dumps' after the battle of Cannae."
2.
Absence of mind; revery.
3.
A melancholy strain or tune in music; any tune. (Obs.) "Tune a deploring dump." "Play me some merry dump."
4.
An old kind of dance. (Obs.)


Dump  n.  
1.
A car or boat for dumping refuse, etc.
2.
A ground or place for dumping ashes, refuse, etc.
3.
That which is dumped.
4.
(Mining) A pile of ore or rock.


dump  n.  A coarse term for defecation.
Synonyms: shit.


verb
Dump  v. t.  (past & past part. dumped; pres. part. dumping)  
1.
To knock heavily; to stump. (Prov. Eng.)
2.
To put or throw down with more or less of violence; hence, to unload from a cart by tilting it; as, to dump sand, coal, etc. (U.S.)
Dumping car or Dumping cart, a railway car, or a cart, the body of which can be tilted to empty the contents; called also dump car, or dump cart.





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"Dump" Quotes from Famous Books



... voice. Urging the wearied horses they pressed on a little faster. It was almost dark, however, when they reached the edge of an opening in the firs and saw a cluster of iron-roofed, wooden buildings and a tall chimney-stack, in front of which the unsightly ore-dump extended. Wet, chilled and worn out as the men were, there was comfort in the sight; but Vane frowned as he noticed that a shallow lake stretched between him and the buildings. On one side of it there ...
— Vane of the Timberlands • Harold Bindloss
... I came to the first apple-tree. I shinned up that tree in a jiffy (old Snaggletooth didn't put in an appearance), filled my bag with jolly fat apples, and slid down again. But when I came to lift the bag up on my shoulder, I found it was awful heavy to carry so far, and I was just agoing to dump some of the apples out, when I remembered all of a sudden that if I cut across the meadow to the plank-road, I could get back to the hotel in a little more than half the time it would take to go ...
— Harper's Young People, January 13, 1880 - An Illustrated Weekly • Various
... night. The wind is usually from the east in that part of Brazil. Blowing over the Atlantic it gathers up moisture to dump on the eastern slope of the Andes. The summits drain the clouds and makes Peru a dry country. It was murky now, and the ...
— Boy Scouts in an Airship • G. Harvey Ralphson
... golden touch could soften steel and stones, Make tigers tame, and huge leviathans Forsake unsounded deeps to dance on sands. After your dire-lamenting elegies, Visit by night your lady's chamber-window With some sweet consort: to their instruments Tune a deploring dump; the night's dead silence Will well become such sweet-complaining grievance. This, or else ...
— The Two Gentlemen of Verona • William Shakespeare [Craig, Oxford edition]
... Buck grabbed her chair and tipped it forward violently in order to dump her off his sacred platform. She fled out into space with a flutter of skirts, landed lightly as a cat and pirouetted on one toe, crooking her arms in the professional pose ...
— Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 5, June 1905 • Various


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